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Paintball Tank Armament

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:47 pm
by judgment_arms
I was searching the net and I came across this page: The Burgles Cannon
Although it has a lot of dead volume, with a good tee valve, or even a modded sprinkler valve this thing would be a very formidable weapon. It’s kind of like the missing link between a ball valve cannon and a coaxial.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:11 pm
by PVC Arsenal 17
Wow, that gun is wierd as hell. Why would you complicate such a simple concept?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:30 pm
by schmanman
messed up. just build a coaxial!

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:52 pm
by Hotwired
Its not that bad really.

The ballvalve bit is what makes it a bit crap.

Otherwise its fine what what its for: being a breech loading coaxile so it at least looks vaguely like a conventional cannon to be used against paintball tanks.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:30 pm
by judgment_arms
schmanman wrote:messed up. just build a coaxial!
Care to tell me how you breach load a coaxial?

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:25 am
by schmanman
you have two tees, well, like this:

http://spudshot.com/Forum/viewtopic.php ... ight=#1394

the pics are partway down the page.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:42 am
by iknowmy3tables
theirs also this http://www.advancedspuds.com/pneumatic.htm
I don't like this much because theirs no pistion now. and that guns valve is a ball valve

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:18 am
by judgment_arms
The one from AdvancedSpuds looks a lot like the one in my link.
And Pimpmann’s didn’t work.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:57 am
by Hotwired
The one in advanced spuds is identical just with a sprinkler valve replacing the ball valve.

I independantly came up with an almost identical design last year because there really is only so many ways you can do stuff with standard pipe fittings.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:38 am
by Velocity
That gun on advanced spuds has stumped me many times. At first glance (like a year or two ago), I agreed with you guys; its just a sprinkler valve.

But the builder himself said, "This launcher took several hours of build time and design time, and also about 4 hours of lathe work"


Other than building a piston, what on this launcher could have possibly taken 4 hours of lathe work? The flush bushings? I think not